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5 hours ago, owl sees all said:

Must disagree with you there Sir. 

 

Many words are not made up. Take 'moo' for instance. It's actually the sound a cow makes. Same with 'meow' and 'whoof'; not to be confused with woofter, that is a made up word. And 'punk'? The sound of a hammer hitting a nail.

No cow ever went Moo. It's a sort of mmmmmmmm. Moo is the word made up by humans. Horses don't go around going Winney Winney! Lol. And owls don't go hoot hoot. It's a sort of hoo hoo. As you know. 

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1 hour ago, Baht Simpson said:

No cow ever went Moo. It's a sort of mmmmmmmm. Moo is the word made up by humans. Horses don't go around going Winney Winney! Lol. And owls don't go hoot hoot. It's a sort of hoo hoo. As you know. 

Yup! You have the tools, but are hitting the screw with the hammer.

 

Around these parts (upper Isaan) the cows definitely go Mooooo. But seeing as it's illegal to repeat a letter more than once, it's shortened to Moo.

 

The two words that are actually animal words are 'Meow' and 'Quack'. No need to say what animals make those sounds. A lot of animal sounds become words due to the French. And human sounds too. 'Splosh' for instance. Perhaps because the French are the world's greatest lovers.

 

As for horses. I've no comment.

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